Word: surpassed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...size of the collection, and at the rare beauty of some of the specimens. But unless he were a connoisseur he would hardly realize that this was one of the two finest collections of the kind in America, the other being at Yale. The European collections which surpass the Harvard one are those at the British Museum, at Vienna, and at Paris. All of these collections, however, have been aided by subsidies from the government. The Harvard collection has the virtue of being practically the work...
...medical schools in the United States, the Harvard Medical school is, if not the very best, at least among the best. The clinical advantages of Boston are equal to those of any school in New York or in Philadelphia, and surpass many. Moreover there is a certain spirit amongst Boston physicians which makes them hang together, and this healthy spirit prevails even in the relations between the professors and the students at the Medical school. The work at Medical school is laborious. Three years work is obligatory, and a fourth year is recommended. The students work nine month...
...grow like nations-not from hour to hour, nor from day to day, but from century to century. The argument that Yale has gained more students in proportion to her former numbers during the last three years than Harvard and that on account of this Yale is destined to surpass Harvard is fatuitous. Unless Yale gains not merely in per cent but gains more in actual numbers than Harvard, it will always be behind; and whatever may be true for the last three years, during the present year, Harvard has gained not only more numerically, but more proportionately than Yale...
...percentage of western men it is evident that since Yale is not making a greater gain in numbers than Harvard, it cannot more than hold its present lead, while if Harvard increases the number of its constituents from the west, whatever the percents may be, it will eventually surpass Yale. From the analogy of history this result is not only possible but likely: so that the surprising discoveries of the Harvard papers do not furnish Yale so much to brag about after...
...first place there are few events in an athletic contest which equal it in excitement, and none that surpass it in the interest taken in its outcome. Then the "dangerous character" is not so much the fault of the event as it is of the candidates for the team. When a man thinks of entering a race, a jumping match, or a boxing bout, etc., he prepares himself for it by a long course of careful and faithful training. He does not wait until within three or four weeks, and then by a few irregular trials, each to his utmost...